But it shouldn’t also be easier for the average Brown grad to pay for the premium! According to the Project on Student Debt, it is.
In 2011, the average Brown grad owed $20,455 for their degree while the average URI grad owed $25,973. At Brown, only 45 percent of 2011 graduates had student loan debt while 73 percent of URI grads did.
The Project on Student Debt Rhode Island ranks Rhode Island as having the fourth highest average student loan debt in the nation at $29,097. RISD didn’t report its data for the study, but here are some of the others:
The Brown Daily Herald had an article about this back in November with a great lede: “Despite having the highest tuition in Rhode Island, Brown had the lowest average debt of all reporting colleges in the state for class of 2011 graduates, according to the Project on Student Debt, a report published by the Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit.”
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